NYT/CBS Poll Shows People Love Socialized Medicine

It’s important to understand that when people say that a move to a single-payer health care system isn’t politically feasible, they don’t mean that it would be unpopular. They mean that our political system is too broken and corrupt to deliver one. Via Atrios, a CBS/NYT poll shows people want government-run health care:

Long story short, President Obama has his reasons for adopting a health care reform agenda that, while ambitious, is less ambitious than this. But there’s no reason for him or anyone else to be particularly terrified of conservatives characterizing their vision as socialism or government takeover or whatever else it is they like to say.